{"product_id":"liberalism-neutrality-and-the-gendered-division-of-labor","title":"Liberalism, Neutrality, and the Gendered Division of Labor","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book defends progressive political interventions to erode the gendered division of labor as legitimate exercises of  coercive political power. The gendered division of labor is widely regarded as the linchpin of gender injustice. The process of gender equalization in domestic and paid labor allocations has stalled, and a growing number of scholars argue that, absent political intervention, further eroding of the gendered division\n\u003cbr\u003eof labor will not be forthcoming anytime soon. Certain political interventions could jumpstart the stalled gender revolution, but beyond their prospects for effectiveness, such interventions stand in need of\n\u003cbr\u003eanother kind of justification. In a diverse, liberal state, reasonable citizens will disagree about what makes for a good life and a good society. Because a fundamental commitment of liberalism is to limit political intrusion into the lives of citizens and allow considerable space for those citizens to act on their own conceptions of the good, questions of  legitimacy arise. Legitimacy concerns the constraints we must abide by as we seek collective political solutions to our shared\n\u003cbr\u003esocial problems, given that we will disagree, reasonably, both about what constitutes a  problem and about what costs we should be willing to incur to fix it. The interventions in question would effectively\n\u003cbr\u003esubsidize gender egalitarian lifestyles at a cost to those who prefer to maintain a traditional gendered division of labor. In a pluralistic, liberal society where many citizens reasonably resist the feminist agenda, can we legitimately use scarce public resources to finance coercive interventions to subsidize gender egalitarianism? This book argues that they can, and moreover, that they can even by the lights of political liberalism, a particularly demanding theory of\n\u003cbr\u003eliberal legitimacy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43934997872878,"sku":"9780198813071","price":195.51,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780198813071.jpg?v=1706230575","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/liberalism-neutrality-and-the-gendered-division-of-labor","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}